<p>Class activities (research and practical) to explore and look at different approaches to this year’s Edexcel GCSE Music set briefs</p>

<p>A set of practice tasks I have made for the A Level Music Composition Technical Brief (Arrangement). Each is a melody with instructions as to the audience/purpose and instrumental requirements, as per the A Level model. Can be marked in exactly the same way as the Edexcel briefs.</p>

<p>A powerpoint presentation with activities to help students learn about briefs 1, 3 and 4 from the Edexcel GCSE Music set briefs 2023-24. This is ideally split up over 3 lessons.<br /> It can be used in any format but invites students to add their own slides to the presentation, therefore it may be most useful if uploaded to e.g. Google slides and shared online with your GCSE class.</p>

<p>A short SoW to develop basic audio sequencing skills around the topic of Electronic Dance Music, using a DAW software.<br /> Worksheets feature walk-throughs of several key sequencing and editing features (with screenshots) to the dance music style.<br /> Although only in 3 main parts, there should be time given in between for learners to create and develop their pieces (suggested in pairs). This could be supplemented with recording additional vocals or other tracks if resources and time allow.<br /> Included also are some starter activities and an assessment rubric for both learners and assessors to evaluate finished pieces.<br /> Note: The worksheets are based around using Macs with Logic Pro or GarageBand, however the tasks are transferable to other DAW platforms.</p>

<p>Powerpoint for a full unit on Writing A Popular Song<br /> Learning objectives are -<br /> -Learn about the conventions of popular music since the 1950s<br /> -Look at famous examples of popular music<br /> -Compose your own pop song using tried and tested techniques!<br /> Can be used as a short or extended SoW. Powerpoint slides also can be printed as worksheets / handouts.<br /> Includes assessment rubric based on KS3 flight path.</p>

<p>A useful crib sheet with points covering all the necessary information to succeed when writing about Defying Gravity in Question 9 of the Edexcel listening paper. This is broken down as DR SMITH and provides students with bitesize content to form their PEE sentences / paragraphs.</p>

<p>Suitable for a half term up to a term of teaching.<br /> Uses DR SMITH method of teaching musical elements as found in GCSE Music.<br /> Each lesson explores a different element with an example piece given for analysis, plus keyword exercises and research homeworks.<br /> Some of the lessons would benefit from scores of the piece (not always essential though), relevant links to records / videos are given in the worksheets.<br /> Also included is an end of unit test, originally made as a Google form.<br /> For this, an appropriate score extract would need to be sourced (cannot be included for copyright reasons).</p>

<p>A collection of worksheets to help students explore, study and revise ‘Release’ from AoS4, Fusions.</p>

<p>Powerpoint presentation containing overview and a number of activities for students to explore and learn ‘3 Dances For 2 Prepared Pianos’. Slides can also be printed as worksheets.</p>

<p>Best used for Year 11 revision in the run up to listening exam.</p> <ol> <li>Each set work has 3 clues which you need to cut up and then hid in (ideally) 8 different rooms. Depending on class size, students can pair up or work individually and I found it works well to give them 2 rooms each.</li> <li>Once located, they should decide (on their own) what their 2 set works are.</li> <li>Then pair up with another to see if they agree on the 4.</li> <li>Lastly they could all together and share, making a final decision before writing them on the board for teacher confirmation.</li> </ol> <p>An extra challenge is that some of the clues have blanks to fill in, which they also had to agree on before handing back in completed. Notes should only be used as a final resort if they can’t remember something. Whole thing can fill an hour lesson nicely (with a bit of discussion at the end). Quite good for working out which students really don’t know certain areas as well!</p>